50 Million Users, 150 Million Calls And Nearly A Billion Text Messages Per Month

Viber, the smartphone app that lets people call and text other users free of charge, has recently surpassed 50 million registered users.

Billion minutes worth of calls every month

Users are currently making over a billion minutes worth of calls every month, Viber claims, and sending near a billion text messages in the same timespan. You know a company is onto something when they start measuring certain KPIs in billions and not millions.

Viber says its iPhone and Android apps are being used by people in 193 countries, who collectively make about 150 million calls on a monthly basis. Over 20 million photo messages are exchanged per month, too.

You’ll note that this means that Viber users are only making 3 calls per month, on average, which suggests that not all 50 million users are as active – or like as not free texting is the killer feature here.

The impressive thing about these milestones is that Viber has done it in just over year afterwards its initial debut, and is all in all showing remarkable growth with over 200,000 new signs-ups per day. And that they’ve achieved this feat whilst challenging the likes of Skype, Vonage, Jajah, Rebtel, Nimbuzz, fring, eBuddy, Truphone and others in the mobile communication and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) space.

Application for iPhone®

Viber is an application for iPhone® and Android� phones that lets you make free phone calls and send text messages to anyone who as well has the application installed.